First Time in Waze?

The first time that you run waze, you will go through a few screens helping you to set up waze properly. This user manual will guide you through these set-up screens, and through all the function of the waze applications on iphone.

Select Server

If waze can't pick up your current location, you will be asked to choose your general location:

USA & Canada.

Israel.

International (rest of the world).

After you choose your general location, waze will ask you to choose a language from the list.

Note: You will be able to change the language later on.

Next, read and accept the waze terms & conditions

Login

After accepting the terms & conditions, you can choose between creating a new user, or entering the credentials of an existing user.

Choose Sign up to log in, or Get Started to use an existing user name / password (if you already created a waze user in the past).
Note: you can also choose to use waze anonymously. Choose Sign up at this screen to proceed anonymously.

Sign Up

Fill in these fields in order to complete your registration.
If you'd like to use waze without creating a user, press the skip button. You will be able to create a user later on.

NOTE: If you choose to use waze as a guest (skip), you will not be able to use any of the functions in our web page, such as editing your routes on the map and the rest of the set up screens (below) will not be displayed.
In which point you will be redirected to the main screen.
If you decide to create a user later on, the points you accumulate as a guest will be passed on to your account.

Twitter

Setting up your twitter account can be done through this screen:

If you don't have a twitter account, or prefer not to link your waze account with your twitter account, just leave these fields blank and hit next.

Ping\Chit Chat

Here you can choose whether you want to receive pings (chit chat) from other wazers. This means other wazers will see your wazer icon with a small chat box, and they will be able to send you direct chit-chats.

Facebook

Waze allows you to connect to Facebook. If you don't have an account, or don't want to link your facebook account with your waze account, choose skip.
If you connect waze with your facebook account, you will be able to see your facebook friends with a special icon on the map, and also compare your waze points and rank with them.

Your account has been created. Press GO and start using Waze (if this is your first time using waze, you will see a short guided tour).

Main Screen

After running the application, you will see the following screen:

The top of the screen

Six different icons will appear on top of the main screen :

GPS Reception icons

connected

Partial connected

No GPS reception.

Internet connection

Connected to Waze

Not connected to Waze

Mood icon

Here you can decide in which mood do you want to appear in Waze.

Groups icon

Here you can see all the groups that you are following.

Events

Here you can see all the events that have been reported by your groups, that have been reported on your route or that have been reported near your location.

Turn off icon

Here, you can turn off the application.

Bottom of the screen

Four different buttons will appear on the bottom of the screen:

Pressing the first button will open the next menu:

Center of the screen

In the center of the screen you will see the map. You can choose to view the map in 2 different modes :

3D mode

2D mode

To change between the modes, press and then , The following screen will appear:

Choose your prefered display.

Zoom

Zoom Out

Zoom In

Tap once on the screen in order to bring up the zoom in / zoom out buttons:

Events

To report an event press The following screen will appear:

Note: This screen will appear only if you have GPS reception and Internet connection.

SETTINGS MENU

To access the Settings menu click the button in the bottom menu of the main screen.

Then click the button:

The Settings Menu will appear:

Quick Actions

Navigation guidance

Here you can select to turn on/off the Navigation guidance, which is the spoken instructions for turns and intersections. This is the same setting which appears as "Mute" and "Unmute" on the main navigation screen pop-up menu when you tap on the navigation bar.

Measurement System

Clock

Auto Zoom

Here you can turn on\off the auto zoom. Auto Zoom increases the zoom factor as you approach the next turn or instruction intersection, and then zooms back out again after you complete that intersection. And then the process repeats.